A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.804 West, latitude 17.8978 North, depth = 3 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 3 km (2 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020003017. Unique identifier: pr2020003017. The temblor was detected at 12:52:12 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/01/20 / 2020-01-03 16:52:12 / January 3, 2020 @ 4:52 pm.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria, Patillas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days sixty, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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